Shout Out to the Midtown Miscreant...Check it

I particularly liked yesterday's (AUG 26th) PSA on the campaign. Hat tip to Ray.

Midtown Miscreant

Okay, I think I need to say a little more, here. Although he writes about a lot of things, the "Miscreant" is the equivalent of a Kansas City Charles Kuralt if Kuralt was a sharp-tongued construction worker. Instead of searching out unique roadside attractions across America, the Miscreant finds incidences of urban blight, takes photos, and writes about what he finds. It's the way he writes about it, his filling in the blanks, that I enjoy. When happenstance takes you through parts of town that you don't normally go to, outside the comfort zone of your normal stomping grounds, thoughts always seem to come to mind about how the people live, or used to live depending on the degree of blighted-ness. What the Miscreant does well is bring a sort of regular Joe critique and a hint of nostalgia to places that often simply get painted with the broad stroke - "urban blight." Old abandon houses and buildings get a kind of "I wonder..." treatment while at the same time broader issues affecting a particular area get brought to our attention. His Ghost of KCK post is a good one to check out. Great photos on that one.